Inducing Trance to WILD. If you want to achieve trance/lower brainwave states easily use the following techniques. These states of consciousness are not only ideal for Lucid Dreaming, they are ideal for things like auto-suggestion and self-hypnosis, developing ESP abilities, meditation, visualization practices, and much more!

Inducing Trance to WILD - Part 2 Check out part 2 to learn techniques on how to develop vivid visualization and imagery, inducing hypnagogia and natural hallucinations to help the WILD process presented here and more!

Reverse Blinking

Get comfy and relaxed. Close your eyes. Now, every 5 seconds or so open them quickly, only long enough to focus on something then close them. It's like blinking in reverse. Your mind doesn't have time to wander but the bizarre thing is you can tumble into trance, and your body relaxes at an incredible rate. Before long, your eyes are heavy and it's almost a struggle to open them. You are completely unaware of how deep you are going until you stop opening them (you stop opening them when you feel you could fall asleep). When you do stop, you feel you are falling into an abyss - it's easy to hold, you are fully alert and it doesn't take forever.

Edit: Here's my step-by-step procedure...

1st: As you're lying down in bed in a comfortable position - preferably the supine (on your back) position - bring awareness to your feet and feel them relaxing and letting go of any tensions. Proceed up to your calfs, knees, your thighs and feel both your legs fully relaxed - you might feel them starting to sink or become warmer. Do the same with the rest of your body bringing a relaxing awareness to your hands, your forearms, elbows, biceps and shoulders - then proceed up your neck and your face then finally your head.

2nd: This is when you do the Reverse Blinking as mentioned above.

3rd: As you get deeper and deeper with the technique vibrations will start to kick in (at least for me anyways) - when you can no longer feel your physical body you'll feel as if you're falling mentally into an abyss and then HI starts to form

4th: Watch the HI in a 'zoned out' way as if you're not really paying attention to any of it. Just watch it as it goes by. Do this until you see it becomes more solid and 3D - this is when I focus in on something and sort of....walk into the dream. Sometimes I just jump in and that's pretty much it....

Tip 1 for Hypnagogic Imagery: One good trick to grab a hold of HI is to cause an object you see to spin using your intention. Making it spin really fast will cause it to become brighter and more solid looking. Doing that will also tend to make you relax into the dream so you can reach out with a dream hand and connect to the imagery which will draw you completely into the dream while you stay lucid.

Tip 2 for Hypnagogic Imagery: [i]If you are experiencing HI and you want to increase it, try not to use your physical eyes to look at them directly at them, instead look 'beyond' it, try to see past all the HI and doing this will cause an explosion of very vivid HI in which a dream eventually forms.

Muscle Twitching to Induce Full Sleep Paralysis

When you're trying to enter paralysis after a while of Reverse Blinking, try gently twitching your arm muscles every 5-15 seconds. Your arms shouldn't actually move when you do this, just send a tiny bit of nerve impulse to make the muscles tense and relax.

If you watch a dog sleeping, sometimes its legs will start to twitch like it's dreaming that it's running but it's in paralysis which prevents any significant movement.

The idea here is to fool the body into thinking you're not only dreaming and asleep, but that you're already in paralysis as well. By twitching but not moving your muscles are behaving as if you're already deeply asleep, your body will probably go directly to paralysis faster than normal.

Note: This is done after a while of Reverse Blinking, when you're feeling heavy and relaxed. You do NOT have to continue Reverse Blinking when you're trying to reach full sleep paralysis and thereafter; just wait for HI and go into a dream.

How Do I Know I'm In A Trance State?

Read about brainwave states and their associated signs of being in those specific states - the ideal state we are trying to achieve in WILD is the Theta state. Here are a few links on brainwave states:
http://www.immrama.org/brainwave/brainwave1.html
http://www.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm
http://www.lucidquest.com/resources/learn/..._brainwaves.htm

You can tell if you're in a trance by how disassociated you are from your physical body - the more, the deeper.

Google is your friend...

NLP Anchoring

I highly recommend once reaching a deep trance state with this technique to anchor it with NLP. This will make your WILD's much faster and easier if you can instantly reach the deep trance state by tapping your fingers or reciting a word or symbol. To learn more how to do this go to this following link:

http://www.trans4mind.com/personal_develop...y/anchoring.htm

NLP Anchoring to Induce Further States of Trance

Here I will provide a technique for those of you who are having trouble reaching deeper states of Trance with Reverse Blinking - it's a classical hypnosis technique called 'fractionation':

1) Get yourself into a light trance with Reverse Blinking and then apply your anchor, while applying a posthypnotic suggestion to yourself: 'every time I touch my fingers like this (or whatever anchor you
use) I will quickly reach this state of mind' - Say that to yourself three times in a 'matter of fact' kind of way
2) Then emerge from the trance state by opening your eyes. Then inhale deeply, and when you exhale, close your eyes and let yourself relax.
3) Do Reverse Blinking again, and as you feel yourself going into trance, fire your anchor.
4) Notice how you reach a deeper level of trance this second time, and when you feel you are deeper into Reverse Blinking, say your posthypnotic suggestion again, and re-anchor yourself.
5) Open your eyes and repeat about six times.

You will find that as you practice this regularly, and let yourself drop into lower brainwave states and anchor the state, you will be forming a new set of neurological pathways, and the more you do this, the faster and more effective your anchor will be.